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I really hate the fortune program spewing nonsense every time I open a terminal session so I tried to remove it.Afterwards mintmenu was broken, after checking my apt logs, it was obvious that removing fortune had also removed mintmenu. After uninstalling fortune I still had to manually remove it from bash.bashrc.

This is not a bug: when you attempted to remove fortunes, it will have warned you it also had to remove mintsystem, which is crucial for a working Mint, incidentally in Gloria, it would also remove all the other mintTools, since they each depend on it. As you have noticed, the proper way to remove the fortunes is to disable them in bash.bashrc Here's the full message you will have got:

The following packages will be REMOVED fortune-mod fortunes-min mint-meta-gnome mint-meta-main mintinstall mintmenu mintnanny mintsystem mintupdate mintwelcome0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 10 to remove and 13 not upgraded.After this operation, 11.2MB disk space will be freed.Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Note that by answering yes to that question, you're basically agreeing to removing Mint. Now, you're welcome to suggest the ability to remove the fortunes package without removing Mint is a feature you'd like to see implemented, so feel free to ask for it: http://www.linuxmint.com/getinvolved.php but it is not a "bug"

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